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- Subject: RE: FTP server
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- From: Ed Bates <ebates@vms1.cc.uop.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:13:59 PST
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- On Mon, 21 Dec 92 09:54:36 CDT, johnson@magic.meridiantc.com writes:
- >We observe that using FTP mget from clients with different file naming
- >conventions from VMS doesn't work the way we would like. For example,
- >mget *.* using NCSA Telnet/FTP from an MS-DOS system gives you filenames
- >like a.c1, b.c4, c.c2 derived from names a.c;1, b.c;4, and c.c;2 respectively.
- >Using mget *.* from Windows/NT flat out fails, when the client is unable
- >to open a local file with a ";" in the name. Are there any clever ways
- >to avoid these problems? Currently we first run the FTP client on VMS
- >to push the files to a Sun, and then transfer to the actual target system.
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- What we've found is that most systems cannot handle VMS version numbers.
- However, CMU??? handles them favorably. My suggestion is to log onto
- the VMS host and FTP using mputs.
-
- -- Ed
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